Finally heading for Earth Force Academy,
in space at age 12!
Away from the bullies, at last…
Bred especially to be Bounders, Jasper and other 12-year-olds find themselves grudgingly assisted at Earth Force Academy and challenged to master the alien-shared tech needed to bound, but why exactly the military Earth Force decided that young teens with ‘unusual neurodiversity‘ were the best pilots for this alien world-jumping is rather… suspect.
In future America,
**kmm
Book info: Bounders / Monica Tesler. Aladdin, 2016. [author site] [publisher site] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.
My book talk: Genetically specialized for interstellar ship bounding, 12-year-old Jasper is glad to escape earth-school bullies and learn to use alien quantum tech at the Academy in space, but he and his pod-mates start wondering why they were bred to become quantum pilots for the military….
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